Poll of the Day > As someone who hates most Adam Sandler films, I actually like uncut gems

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Maybe thats what happens when you dont just get typecast all the time

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FatalAccident posted...

Maybe thats what happens when you dont just get typecast all the time

I've heard nothing but good things

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Most of his bad movies have been from his own company Happy Madison. Punch Drunk Love was great, and so was his acting in Reign Over Me. He should do more serious/dramatic acting.

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Uncut Gems has undoubtedly his best performance, but have you seen Punch Drunk Love? That things an all timer.

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yep, that was a great movie

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kind9 posted...

Most of his bad movies have been from his own company Happy Madison. Punch Drunk Love was great, and so was his acting in Reign Over Me. He should do more serious/dramatic acting.

This. He's a much, much better actor than you'd think if all you saw was some of the shit he's put out over the years.

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FatalAccident posted...

Maybe thats what happens when you dont just get typecast all the time

It's more like he makes most of his movies as an excuse to get free vacations and hang out with his friends (he's pretty much openly admitted this in the past), so he doesn't really give much of a shit about the material or his performance, and half-asses his way through it.

When he actually takes a role seriously and/or cares about it, he can be surprisingly good. Because that's when he puts the effort in.

It's similar to how Will Smith is actually a great actor, but you never really see it because Hollywood just keeps paying him to play the Fresh Prince over and over and over again. So he basically just shrugs and cashes the check. But when he gets a role he's passionate about, he becomes way better.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's more like he makes most of his movies as an excuse to get free vacations and hang out with his friends (he's pretty much openly admitted this in the past), so he doesn't really give much of a shit about the material or his performance, and half-asses his way through it.

When he actually takes a role seriously and/or cares about it, he can be surprisingly good. Because that's when he puts the effort in.

It's similar to how Will Smith is actually a great actor, but you never really see it because Hollywood just keeps paying him to play the Fresh Prince over and over and over again. So he basically just shrugs and cashes the check. But when he gets a role he's passionate about, he becomes way better.

Reminds me of something Eddie Murphy once said: "But the money they gave me to do Best Defense, yall woulda done Best Defense too, okay? ... I was like, 'What?! How dare you give me a script like this! Oh, that much money? Lets go!"

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As someone who likes most Adam Sandler films, I actually hate uncut gems

Adam Sandler can be good if he wanted to. He chooses not to because he knows his audience and he'd rather have an easy shoot/vacation.

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Reminds me of something Eddie Murphy once said: "But the money they gave me to do Best Defense, yall woulda done Best Defense too, okay? ... I was like, 'What?! How dare you give me a script like this! Oh, that much money? Lets go!"

Michael Madsen has mentioned that he does movies mainly to pay the bills ("I've got six kids, I got to keep food in the refrigerator"), and that he can literally go down the list of movies he's been in on IMDB and tell you which ones he did for a paycheck and which ones he did because he actually cared about the role.

And then there's the scene in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are talking about doing the money pictures in-between art pictures to pay the bills.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Michael Madsen has mentioned that he does movies mainly to pay the bills ("I've got six kids, I got to keep food in the refrigerator"), and that he can literally go down the list of movies he's been in on IMDB and tell you which ones he did for a paycheck and which ones he did because he actually cared about the role.

And then there's the scene in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are talking about doing the money pictures in-between art pictures to pay the bills.

Yeah. Ewan McGregor started doing big pictures so he could do smaller ones for scale (because there's no way they could afford him otherwise), and Steve Martin has basically just been using his paychecks to fund his art collection for years now.

Someone (Leno? Conan? Letterman?) asked Affleck "Why did you do Paycheck?", and he said "The answer lies in the title, fittingly enough." ^_^

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Someone (Leno? Conan? Letterman?) asked Affleck "Why did you do Paycheck?", and he said "The answer lies in the title, fittingly enough." ^_^

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoneyDearBoy
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